We asked our Facebook followers… What was your favorite event, festival, or concert memory in Columbia?
Opening the whole weekend for what would be the very last Roots N Blues event. The whole weekend was a blast, but playing very first before Jaime Wyatt and the legendary Tanya Tucker and watching Tanya from backstage and going to the other stage and watching Wilco from backstage!! ❤️❤️❤️ all while flying high from our performance and enjoying some great locally brewed Logboat beer. If nothing that big ever happens again in my career, it was a moment that I will treasure forever, and I am so thankful to the wonderful people who made it happen. So many great performances that weekend, including Jon Batiste (Jon Batiste and Chaka Khan at a park in Columbia, MO?!?!!!) and across the years, many great memories of sitting under the trees watching Jon Prine and Mavis Staples and others, or shoving up close for Brandi [Carlile]. But 2022 will be the most special.
— Meredith Musgrove Shaw
I’ll never forget seeing the documentary Tickled at True/False 2016. The doc is about the subculture of competitive endurance tickling, and the filmmakers were being sued at the time and were served papers at the festival. It felt like we were part of the documentary! It was crazy!
— Sarah Parks
Rolling Stones
— Kent Ford
I saw Sleater-Kinney here a long time ago, and Digable Planets, both at the Blue Note and both great shows.
— Roger McKinney
Red Hot Chili Peppers with Faith No More at The Blue Note.
— Sean Erickson
So many to choose from, but I’d have to say Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd tribute band) is always a great show at The Blue Note! And who doesn’t dig Jason Caton playing guitar?!!
— Lori Caton
In 1986, I won tickets from a radio station by running to a corner of Broadway (I no longer recall the cross street or actual date). I went with my Chi-O sister who, to this day, is still one of my best friends. It was Bon Jovi opening for 38 Special’s “Slippery When Wet Tour” at the Hearnes Center.
— Lilly Hernandez-Winkeljohn
Little Shop of Horrors at Columbia Entertainment Company in September 2017. My daughter was the music director, but even cooler: I won the raffle for the post-show experience of getting into Audrey II’s massive maw. (I was strongly encouraged to give my winning ticket to a kid. Pfft. There was no bigger kid in the building that night.)
— Jodie Jackson Jr
When Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar played at Rose Music Hall on August 24, 2024. We caught up with Keanu near Eighth and Walnut as he was coming back to his tour bus from dinner. My son Quentin was holding a Sharpie, and Mr. Reeves gladly signed his “I ❤️ Keanu” T-shirt. Memories we’ll treasure forever.
— C.J. Levy
Seeing Margo Price and John Prine share the stage at Roots N Blues back in 2017. I’m so glad I got a chance to see him perform live before he passed — what a legend.
— Jordan Watts
